Phil Wylie’s Ramblings


Independence Day Net Neutrality Video!
20 December 2006, 10:04 am
Filed under: Digg

This is the new video from savetheinternet.com just released today. It features a “Mars Attacks” theme, with the telcoms as the aliens and has appearances by John Hodgman (”I’m a PC” guy), Ask-a-Ninja, Amanda Congdon, Bill Moyers and many others. This video rebuts the FUD video the telcoms are sponsoring and puts out the facts.

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A lighter music player – musikCube
4 December 2006, 1:02 pm
Filed under: Digg, Music

I dugg musikCube this morning after downloading and trying out this lightweight, simplistic looking music player. The download is just under 3MB, and its 2 – 4 MB memory usage while playing is far better than Windows Media Player 11’s 48MB!

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Fancy GUIs are nice but when I thought about it, my media player is usually minimised anyway. When minimised musikCube hides itself in your system tray, popping up balloon messages when tracks change.

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Its functionality can be increased with plug-ins, including an audioscrobbler plug-in, which means my last.fm profile will start getting updates! I’m going to give it a go for a while, it’s well worth a try.

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